Flower Pedals releases Hosta V2 wah filter pedal

July 29, 2025 · 4 sources

Flower Pedals has released the Hosta V2, a compact analog wah filter with MIDI control and six onboard presets, listed at $349¹². Delicious Audio reported the update on July 29, 2025²; Guitar Pedal X reported the pedal was up for preorder on May 21, 2025³.

The Hosta is a rocker-free wah in a 125B-class stompbox enclosure, with an analog signal path and digital control¹. It has three modes: Auto Wah, Fixed and Envelope¹. In Auto mode an internal LFO drives the filter, with continuously variable waveform shapes, speed syncable to tap tempo, and three ramping options: Momentary, Latch and Drift¹. Fixed mode works as a traditional wah with an expression pedal connected, or ramps the wah position from the footswitch¹. Envelope mode responds to playing dynamics with adjustable sensitivity, attack and release¹.

The V2 adds MIDI in/thru on a 3.5mm Type A TRS jack with an integrated optocoupler, which the maker says removes the need for a converter box, and MIDI can control every parameter¹. Six presets are recalled via a color-coded LED, and expression mappings, tap tempo settings and parameter positions save to them¹. The expression jack also supports an external tap¹. Power is 9 to 18V DC center negative at under 150mA¹.

Delicious Audio describes the V2 as incorporating innovations from the company's Sunflower and Dahlia pedals, and lists heel/toe parameter mapping, a copy function for mirroring heel and toe settings, and an added Attack control in Envelope mode among the changes². Guitar Pedal X lists the controls as Level, Frequency, Depth, Mode, Ramp, Shape/Release, Speed/Sensitivity and Q, with secondary functions³.

The original Hosta was announced in March 2020 at $279⁴.